Tag: create

GCP Create Instance From Snapshot

There are two steps in creating an instance from a snapshot.

  1. Create a disk from snapshot
  2. Create an instance from the disk

Create a disk from snapshot.

gcloud compute disks create "hostname-boot" \
--project "project-id" \
--zone "us-central1-a" \
--source-snapshot "snapshot-name" \
--type "pd-standard" \
--size "100"

Create an instance from disk.

gcloud beta compute instances create hostname \
--project=project-id \
--zone=us-central1-a \
--subnet=your-subnetwork \
--machine-type=n1-standard-1 \
--no-address \
--maintenance-policy=MIGRATE \
--service-account=service.account@developer.gserviceaccount.com \
--disk=name=instance-1,device-name=instance-1,mode=rw,boot=yes,auto-delete=yes \
--reservation-affinity=any \
--labels=builtby=john.doe \
--tags=web \
--scopes= \
--metadata=

GCP Convert Standard to SSD

How to convert Persistent Standard disk to SSD.

First create a snapshot of the disk.

gcloud compute disks snapshot your-server \
--snapshot-names manual-snapshot-disk-1 \
--project your-project \
--zone us-central1-c

Restore snapshot to SSD format.

gcloud compute disks create disk-1-ssd \
--source-snapshot manual-snapshot-disk-1 \
--project your-project \
--zone us-central1-a \
--type pd-ssd \
--size 10GB

Swap disks using GCP attach and detach.

AWS LightSail Create Snapshots

Here’s my script to create snapshots of a LightSail instance. Create daily or weekly snapshots.

#!/bin/bash
if [ $1 != '' ]; then 
  prefix=$1
  timestamp=$(date +%s)
  snapshotname=$prefix'_web-server_'$timestamp
  /usr/local/bin/aws lightsail create-instance-snapshot \
  --instance-snapshot-name $snapshotname \
  --instance-name web-server
else
  echo 'Need one argument. e.g. daily or weekly'
fi

Crontab. Job can be scheduled daily or weekly.

# run daily at 4am
0 4 * * * /bin/bash /root/snapshots/create-snapshot.sh daily 2>&1
# run weekly every sunday at 5am
0 5 * * 0 /bin/bash /root/snapshots/create-snapshot.sh weekly 2>&1